The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-17
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters of Money and Management
About Various Lines.

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Maj. Stone and his engineering corps are
and Chattanooga railroad through Murray
county
Contracts have been let for the immediate
construction of a fifteen-mlle link of road
from Oliver Springs to Clinton, Tenn. This
will give Knoxville another outlet to Chat
tanooga and Cincinnati. The new line is
under control of the Richmond and Dan
vile system. .-....-
DIR. Bronson is expected back TO Eustis,
Fla, from New York in two or three days,
when work will PROFESSIONALLY commence
at the north end of the present grade of the
Alabama, Florida and Atlantic railroad,
and come into Eustis, ana so on in a north
western direction.
Tallahassee, Fla, TdlIahdsseeon. Chief
Engineer REYNOLDS, of the Savannah, Flori-
da and Western Railroad reached the fair
grounds. one mile north of the city, Tues
day, with the permanent survey of the rail
road from Townsville. He is engaged to-
day in surveying the best route into the city.
He says that the grading in and around
Tallahassee is going to be quite heavy. Our
lofty hills are beautiful to look at, but they
are unpleasant neighbors for railroad By
reference to our advertising columns it will
be seen that the company Is advertising for
Dlus 10 10 Ine grazing, cue. rum IL olldo-
vile to the Florida line, bids open until
Sept. 80 Estimates on the cost of the work
from thence to Tallahassee will be ready it
is thought, by that time.
Maj. HOLSTER, of the Blue Springs,
Orange City and Atlantic railroad, Fla,
was in Eustis day or two ago to secure aid
for the extension of his road from its pres
ent terminus on the ST. Johns river,
through the Blackwater country, Seneca
and Eustis, to connection at Tavares with
the Florida Railway and Navigation sys-
TEN. Eustis and Seneca citizens promised
the desired aid, and Maj HOLSTER assured
them that in all probability the road would
be so extended If so, he said the
work would commence at once. This
road is a standard gauge and now
running from Blue Springs, on the
st. Johns, to New Smyrna, on the Halifax
When built he says he can carry passengers
in one and one-half hours out TO the surf of
the glorious Atlantic The Major went
from Eustis with civil engineer through
the country to the st. Johns to look over
the proposed line. ...
Dalton North Georgia Citizen: A cor
respondent of the Chattanooga Times is in
favor of the Augusta and Chattanooga rail
road taking totally different route from
the one now Under preliminary survey-a
route that will leave our section ''out in
the cold" He suggests that the road be
built from Gainesville straight up through
Georgia to Murphy, in North Carolina,
and thence down the Hiwassee river to
Cleveland, Tenn, where it would connect
with the East Tennessee railroad, entering
Chattanooga by that line. This of
course would save some thirty-eight
miles Of track laying but the new road
would virtually become a division of the
East Tennessee system. and Augusta, the
city principally interested in the construc-
ton Of the road, would lose'her independ-
ent airline to the West, as well as the trade
of the richest section of North Georgia
while an absolutely new source of commerce
would be lost to Chattanooga. The route
now being surveyed has been long under
consideration, and it is conceded to be the
most practicable one in every respeet-su-
perior in all things to the 1gzag route pro
posed by the Times correspondent